Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary

Abel-Majed Abdel Bary (born 1990), also known as "Jihadi John" or "John the Beatle", was a British-Egyptian rapper who later joined the Islamic State's military, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Biography
Abel-Majed Abdel Bary was born in London in the United Kingdom, the son of Egyptian jihadist Adel Abdel Bari, in 1990. He left his family home in Maida Vale in Greater London on 1 July 2013 to fight for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria during the Syrian Civil War, continuing a family tradition of terrorism (his father was accused of being one of the perpetrators of the 1998 US Embassy bombings.

Known as "Jihadi John" or "John the Beatle", he executed American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff by beheading in two highly graphic videos released to the internet, and he also shot a Syrian Army soldier loyal to Bashar al-Assad on camera.